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No, not in the Senate with McConnell instigating the political trade-offs ...

Headlines

POLITICO’s election forecast: Trump, GOP Senate in trouble

Trump administration releases list of companies that received most money from small business loans

Soros set to double 2016 election spending this year

Nike won’t sell [Redskins] team gear until name changes

Federal judge orders Dakota Access pipeline to close

Electoral College voters can be forced to back state popular vote winners, Supreme Court says

Chinese firm removes Hunter Biden from board on company website, but he still owns 10% of company

Hundreds return to protest outside armed couple’s home in St. Louis

Trump criticizes NASCAR ban on Confederate flags, attacks black driver

Coronavirus hospitalizations grow in more than 20 states as Texas admissions soar to new record

Niagara Falls - area becomes ground zero of maijuana smuggling

Israel blew up nuclear site in Iran, official tells New York Times

Headlines

Progressives steamrolled across the Senate map

Biden to meet privately with George Floyd’s family and will record message for funeral

Minneapolis mayor booed out after refusing to defund police ...

Barr: Media’s big lie that Lafayette Park protesters were peaceful

Thousands protest in Brussels as U.S. movement sweeps Europe

Op-Ed: The future of U.S. leadership depends on how the nation addresses systemic racism

NYT: Bush, Romney will not support Trump re-election ...

National Guard members look for new hotel, after DC mayor boots them

Colin Powell: Trump ‘lies all the time’

Coronavirus live updates: AstraZeneca approached Gilead about a potential merger

Colin Powell to vote Biden ...

Police chief forced out after praising citizens armed against looters

Headlines

Biden names new campaign manager

NHL suspends season due to coronavirus

Market -25% since Trump said ’buy’ ...

Fauci: Coronavirus in U.S. would be ‘worse’ without travel bans

Fed announces massive cash injection to relieve U.S. debt markets

Coronavirus live update: Senate cancels recess, professional sports upended

Patients contagious up to 37 days ...

Bernie Sanders: Coronavirus shows why America needs Single Payer

Pentagon leaders warn of military response after deadly [Iraqi] rocket attack

Human trials testing coronavirus vaccine could begin ‘within a few weeks.’ top US health official

Trump re-election chances suddenly look shakier ...

‘The E.U. disapproves’: Brussels angry Trump acted without their permission

Trial Predictions

- Republicans will move for a summary judgment on Impeachment Article 2 (Obstruction of Congress) ... and will succeed

- Trump lawyers will conclude their defense on Monday

- Senate will take only one day for questions

- Only two Republican Senators will vote to call witnesses ... Roberts will not interfere

- Three Democrat Senators will join all Republicans voting to acquit Trump on Article 1 (Abuse of Power)

- Senate impeachment trial will be over by Friday

- Schiff and Schumer will embrace in crocodile tears while Nadler eats a hot dog ...

House Managers

I don’t know about you, dear reader, but I am increasingly convinced that the Democrats’ imperial House managers for Trump’s Senate impeachment trial are exhibiting inflamed exhortations against President Trump in a rather repetitious and disingenuous way. Add soporific, staged and self-serving. Maybe also monotonous, misdirecting, melodramatic, mean, mendacious and malevolent. Bodacious, blatant and bilious. Droning, diabolical and dubious. Unconstitutional, unruly and unctuous. Treacherous and tedious. Rapacious and reptilian.

Legislative Fibrillation

A rapid irregular heartbeat is called cardiac fibrillation ... and it often precedes a heart attack or even death. The irregular and frenetic stunts emanating out of the House of Representatives of late, centering around Trump’s impeachment, put this observer in mind of legislative fibrillation.

The Pelosi, Schiff, Nadler tag team seems to be orchestrating a staccato disruption of the norms usually enjoyed on Capitol Hill ... with the clear intent of emasculating our president ... using whatever weird and twisted tactics it takes ... a solemn sinister plot.

This unconstitutional and farcical finagling might well be presaging a heart attack for this Deep State cabal ... hopefully resulting in its figurative demise.

Rash

The mindless media has decreed that healthcare reform was the reason that Democrats won the House of Representatives in 2018. Balderdash! It was the Mueller investigation into Republican collusion with Russia in order to get Trump elected in 2016. This sham probe sullied the GOP enough to flip 31 House seats in districts that Trump had previously carried ... 41 in total.

Now the voters in these districts have learned that Mueller was merely a dotty figurehead in a huge Democrat hoax ... and many will also understand that Trump’s laughable impeachment is nothing more than Mueller warmed over — just another attempt to smear Republicans enough that Trump will not win against Biden. This is all a donkey wet dream.

Voters are often politically naive but not that naive. The Republicans will not only win back the vast majority of the House seats that they lost in 2018, but they will carry many more ... to easily take back the House ... expand their lead in the Senate ... and the Orangeman may even win the popular vote.

I realize that these are rather rash predictions a year out from the actual election ... but this rash is itchy and I am compelled to scratch it.

Headlines

Fiona Hill clashes with GOP over ‘fictional’ Ukrainian claims

Janet Yellen says, ‘there is good reason to worry’ about the US economy sliding into recession

Israel PM Netanyahu defiant after his indictment ...

Fiona Hill penned a Washington Post op ed against giving Ukraine weapons in 2015

Haley billed as ‘frontrunner’ in 2024 GOP nomination

SpaceX blows the top off of Starship in pressure testing to the max

Iran [Inter]net outages to effectively isolate entire nation ...

Fiona Hill worked with Christopher Steele, author of the Russian ‘dossier’

Inspector General’s report on FBI-Russian probe due out in December

House Dems, Republicans fail to reach agreement on USMCA trade agreement

White House backs full Senate trial ...

Confidence in Trump economy hits highest level ever

Headlines

Act like a stiff’: To fight impeachment, Trump tries to look presidential

States’ massive Google antitrust probe will expand into search and Android businesses

Giuliani faces U.S. probe on campaign finance, lobbying breaches ...

Democrat dud: First public impeachment hearing falls short

Amazon suing Pentagon over $10 billion cloud contract, alleging ‘bias’

Trump asks Supreme Court to let him keep his tax returns private, setting up landmark fight

Love him or hate him, voters say impeachment hearing will not change their views ...

Taylor's ‘bombshell’ repeats what was in the July 25 phone call transcript

Senate confirms controversial Trump judicial nominee

Nancy Pelosi says an USMCA trade deal breakthrough could be ‘imminent’

Turkish media paints White House visit as Erdogan triumph over Trump ...

Kamala Harris continues to flounder in the polls

Plenary Powers

The majority party in the House has “plenary powers.” This means that they can set the rules ... any rules they want ... fair or unfair. Depending upon how Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff wield these plenary powers in the upcoming Impeachment Inquiry public hearings will be the touchstone for the American public.

A perfect test of Democrat fairness will be which Republican-preferred witnesses Schiff allows to be called. And any that he disallows might (should) be allowed when this process moves to the House Judiciary Committee for an actual impeachment vote. And MUST be allowed if this process moves to the Senate for a trial.

Be careful Dems!

Afterward: Good reason that the Dems might not, in the end, vote for impeachment ... or even move this kangaroo process to the House Judiciary Committee ... hoping that Schiff can damage Trump enough in the Intelligence Committee to ruin his chances for re-election. See: Witness List Request.

Bubble Brain

I've often thought that nobody should be allowed to vote unless they can name the three branches of our government (legislative, executive and judicial), Now, newly-elected New York City Congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has exhibited stunning ignorance of even this simple fact. She thinks this answer is the "the president, the Senate and the House" (her new venue). If you don't believe me, please watch: Daily Wire News Video.

Now this 29-year-old new Representative has gone from being a Bronx bartender to a $175,000 per year gig helping to guide our ship of state. She has a cum laude degree in economics from Boston University and has promised her equally-clueless voters free healthcare, free housing, free college and just about free everything else ... without any clear idea of how to pay for this largess. (She also wants to eliminate the Columbus Day holiday.)

She clearly is a babbling bubbling brain ... naive as to what she is getting into. Unfortunately, she is not by herself in that reform school under the dome in Washington, DC.

Afterthought: However, one bright spot -- she is against the NYC tax giveaway to Amazon!

After afterthought:

Headlines

[Jeff] Flake floats GOP primary run against Trump: 'Someone has to run'

Trump's trade war could dent China's domestic consumption, dragging down the rest of Asia

Malibu apocalypse, stars flee [wildfire]

Fraud expert: Florida election official allowed illegal aliens, felons to vote

Trump, without evidence, accuses Democrats of 'election theft' in Florida Senate race

The 'world's first' A.I. news anchor has gone live in China

114,637,000 Americans in households getting gov't assistance ...

Michael Moore: 'Preventing black people from voting' only way GOP can win

Trump calls Macron's comments on building a European army to defend against U.S. 'Insulting'

White House trade advisor Navarro says China trade deal will be on Trump's terms, not Wall Street's

Deems plan most aggressive gun-control legislation in decades ...

Update: Presidential proclamation bars illegal immigrants from full amnesty

Rash Prediction

On Tuesday, the Republicans will pick up seats in the Senate AND the House. Barbara Streisand will finally move to Canada.

Headlines

Trump: 'This was anti-Semitic at its worst'

Here's why one Wall Streeter thinks the Fed should take a breather to stabilize the battered market

Humanoid granted visa ...

... [Pittsburgh] Killer posted anti-Trump comments on social media

White House tempers hopes of retaining House control

Former President Jimmy Carter lives in a $167,000 house and shops at Dollar General

Control of Senate may hinge on Mississippi runoff ...

Synagogue shooting suspect passed background check

Bolton says Putin has been invited to visit Washington in early 2019

Saudi Arabia says kingdom to prosecute Khashoggi killers, lauds U.S. ties

Migrants refuse housing, jobs in Mexico ... 'We want America' ...

Grassley refers Amerati to DOJ for second criminal probe

Headlines

Dens break GOP hold on Mideast governorships

Michael Cohen is reportedly talking to Robert Mueller about trump's [financial] dealings with Russia

WSJ: Google workers discussed tweaking search function to counter [Trump's] travel ban ...

62M immigrants and their U.S.-born children now reside in the America

How the U.S. Senate became a campus kangaroo court

Former Google CEO predicts the Internet will split in two by 2029, with one part led by China

Paper: Impeaching Trump 'doubtful,' removing him 'neatly impossible'

Number of Arabic speakers in America nearly doubled since 2000

Michael Flynn to be sentenced Dec. 18

Tesla loses another exec: VP of supply chain management Liam O'Connor

ASSANGE: [We are] Last generation to be free of surveillance  ...

Courts deport half of Obama's 2014 adult migrants

Rash Prediction

The current spittle-flecked mania on the left will turn what was predicted as a Blue Wave in November into Republican wins in both the House and Senate.Even Elizabeth Warren may lose in Massachusetts.

Headlines

Why the Democrats just lost the Senate

Trump's decision to ditch  Iran nuke deal helps push gas prices above $3 in parts of US

Top [5] ISIS commanders captured; lured into trap with cellphone app

Europe faces massive wave of freed terror convicts ...

Pence on Mueller probe: 'It's time to wrap it up'

Iran-Israel strikes show risk of Middle East war after US exit from nuclear deal

Baltimore police commissioner  charged for not paying taxes ...

CNN's May ratings already collapsing by 20-plus percent

McCain urges Senate to reject Haspel for CIA

Nurse charged in death of former Trump aide HR McMaster's father

Looting at lava-evacuated Hawaii houses ...

'I've done nothing wrong': London mayor Khan dismisses crime wave criticism

Headlines

Wounded Menendez draws few [election]challengers

Israel is the latest country to signal a crackdown on cryptocurrencies

China to overtake U.S. economy in 15 years ...

Jerry Brown pardons criminal aliens to avoid deportation

Putin's main rival barred from running in election

Senate finally reveals its harassment settlements -- on Christmas

Trump lawyer sticks to prediction on quick end to Russian probe ...

Reports: PA president Mahmoud Abbas instructs staff to sever ties to U.S.

Republicans warn Trump of 2018 [election] bloodbaths

U.S. fishermen losing ground to massive offshore wind farms

MYSTERY: Fewer strong earthquakes in Oklahoma in 2017 ...

Report: 5 major conservative victories in Latin America in 2017

Folk Logic

"Too big for one's britches" -- I love this bit of folk logic ... describing someone whose ego is so large that it is making the decisions. This Roy Moore imbroglio has exposed hundreds with this puffed-up malady... John McCain, Mitch McConnell, the Washington Post, the RNC, Mitt Romney and most of the stage prancers in Washington. The only rational voice in all this cacophony of phonies is Pat Buchanan who says, "Let the people of Alabama decide."

This is a sensible solution to a nonsensical situation. When there is a he-said, she-said stand-off, I don't believe that it should be resolved by the hysterical national media ... particularly a media so obviously biased. The people of Alabama know Judge Roy Moore and, if they want him as their senator, then the rest of the swamp should shut up and say, "So be it."

The Harvey Weinstein revelations have unleashed a firestorm of copycat accusations ... most, likely true, but some opportunistic. Human nature being what it is, sex is always the imp hiding in many garden parties. This imp can be malignant as in the Harvey Weinstein case ... or just coquettish ... which is to suggest that this imp is not always male.

I have no idea where on the spectrum of sexual by-play Roy Moore's actions fell all those many decades ago ... nor, truthfully, does the Washington Post nor Mitch McConnell ... nor certainly  Sean Hannity's advertisers. So why not let the people of Alabama ... the ones who know him best ... decide if Judge Moore is too big for his britches?